THEORETICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR

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THEORETICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR

PART 1. MORPHOLOGY

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MORPHOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS

o A language as a hierarchical structure of interrelated ‘layers’ o The syntactic, lexical, morphological and phonological ‘layers’

THE PROBLEM OF PARTS OF SPEECH CLASSIFICATION

o Principles for classifying words into lexical-grammatical classes (‘parts of speech’): - the general semantic principle - the formal morphological principle

THE NOUN IN ENGLISH

o The defining characteristics of central nouns:   They are a class of notional words which

THE VERB IN ENGLISH

  o The defining characteristics of central verbs:  

THE ADJECTIVE IN ENGLISH

  They are a class of notional words which - express the general semantics of Quality;

THE ADVERB IN ENGLISH

  o General semantics: give a characteristic of another characteristic  

THE PRONOUN IN ENGLISH

  o very different from other lexical-grammatical classes of words: (1) semantically:

THE NUMERAL IN ENGLISH

  o General semantics: - Cardinal Numerals express the idea of an abstract number

FUNCTION WORDS IN ENGLISH

 

PREPOSITIONS vs. CONJUNCTIONS

  o Syntactically: they are not sentence constituents Are used: 1) in a phrase: - they indicate a relation between…    

Supplementary reference materials

3. Аракин В.Д. Сравнительная типология английского и русского языков: учеб. пособие / В.Д. Аракин. – М. : ФизМатЛит, 2000. – 256 с. 4. Блох М.Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка: учеб.… 5. Блох М.Я. Теоретические основы грамматики: учебник для студ. ин-тов и фак. иностр. Языков / М.Я. Блох. – М. :…